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New on DVD today: 'Wall-E,' 'Tropic Thunder'

By Forrest Hartman • forrest@rgj.com • November 17, 2008 It's a great week for home video, as most of the major releases are outstanding. Children should be particularly excited because the Pixar hit "WALL-E" finally is...

Oscar's documentary problem, cont.

Henry Kaiser A diver under the ice in "Encounters at the End of the World." In good news, Werner Herzog's "Encounters at the End of the World," James Marsh's "Man on Wire" and Carl Deal and Tia Lessin's "Trouble the Water"...

"WALL• E," "Tropic Thunder" released on DVD this week

Here are some of today's DVD releases. Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie reviewers, freelancers or wire services (for full reviews... Here are some of today's DVD releases. Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie...

Oscar Docs Shortlist Leaves Out Some Fan Favorites

Believe it or not, the Academy has already made some decisions on who will get Oscars next year! The documentary feature category is one of the few that releases shortlists of films that will be considered for the year, and the...

SCOTT HORTON—A Ticket to The Hague for Dick Cheney?

Gene Burns is one of the nation’s most popular talk radio hosts. For years he has dismissed accounts of torture; America, he has said, does not torture. But last night, after watching Torturing Democracy and realizing that he...

Certificate: Thoughtful

After two decades in the wilderness, the 'essay film' has resurfaced. Producer Don Boyd on how the digital age is custom-built for directors with big ideas and tiny budgets Twenty years ago, I produced an extraordinary film:...

"Synecdoche, New York": A Portrait of the Artist as an Inspired Head Trip

Synecdoche, New York is a startlingly ambitious movie about the pitfalls of the artistic life. Elsewhere, Taxi to the Dark Side shocks and angers, and the underrated W. goes beyond parody to understand Dubya.

Taxi to the Dark Side

Monthly Every Second Wednesday Video Presentation at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness, Fresno, CA 93728, across from Fresno City College * SE Corner Van Ness & McKinley * Entrance on Van Ness. This month’s...

Jason Solomons on the London Film Festival highlights

The 52nd London Film Festival enjoyed its finest ever year of box office, breaking records with two days (and a Bond screening) to go. It matched its commercial success with an impressive breadth of quality programming...

Taxi to the Dark Side

One of the tremendous consequences of this Election is that the next President of the United States (whoever he ends up being) will have a very different understanding of the Geneva Convention and the permissibility of the...

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